Satono Glow caps fillies' sweep of Rosehill's three-year-old features

Satono Glow won the Roman Consul Stakes at Rosehill on October 10, completing a sweep by fillies of the meeting's three-year-old features and giving jockey Zac Lloyd a double after Proxima Dea's success.

The John O’Shea and Tom Charlton-trained filly took command inside the final 100 metres of the Group 2, 1200-metre race and beat Steel Will by a length and a quarter. Why So Hard finished third, while favourite Paradoxium, who had set a strong pace, faded to fourth.

Satono Glow has now won four of her five starts and became the first filly to take the Roman Consul since Jolie Bay in 2012. Her only defeat came in the Percy Sykes Stakes when Lloyd could not find a clear run. The jockey said he was pleased to make amends on Saturday.

She started at $2.60 after a first-up Group 3 victory at Flemington, with Paradoxium the $2 favourite. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that her odds for the Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes over 1200 metres shortened from $9 to $6.

Earlier, Lloyd guided unbeaten Proxima Dea to victory in the Group 3 Gloaming Stakes over 1800 metres. She edged Wonka by a short neck in a five-horse finish, becoming only the second filly to win the race and the first in 33 years.

Trainer David Payne praised her stamina and ground-covering action. He plans to send her and fifth-placed stablemate Persian Wonder to the Group 1 Spring Champion Stakes over 2000 metres at Randwick on October 24. Proxima Dea shortened from $8 to $4.50 for the November 5 VRC Oaks, joining the favourites.

Chuchichaschtli followed her Warwick Farm debut win with victory in the A$500,000 Listed Tapp-Craig over 1400 metres. Tyler Schiller again settled her behind the leader before taking an inside passage to win. It was his third victory in the race's five editions.

Michael Hawkes identified the A$1 million Callander-Presnell over 1600 metres as her likely next target. He trains the Exceedance filly with John and Wayne Hawkes and said her potential had been apparent for about six months, although she remains inexperienced. Her name is a Swiss German term for a kitchen cabinet.

Elsewhere, Anthracite, ridden by Andrew Adkins, narrowly held off Barrengarry in a benchmark 88 race over 2000 metres. The former South Australian runner had finished in the top four in all seven starts of the campaign. Trainer Joe Pride is considering the A$750,000 Rosehill Gold Cup in three weeks and sees the Sydney Cup as a possible longer-term target.

Five-year-old Alabama State won the benchmark 72 Midway Handicap for his first success since January at the same track. He had been unplaced in five intervening starts outside Midway company. Trainer Jack Pilkington is targeting the A$500,000 Four Pillars in three weeks.

Pilkington hoped the roughly half-length win would bring a rating rise of no more than four points. He calculated a 61kg load for the Four Pillars with apprentice Newman's three-kilogram allowance. Alabama State finished fourth in that race in 2024.